Description: Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement
Brief description:
Michael Peter Smith is distinguished research professor in Community Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is co-author of the award-winning book Citizenship across Borders, and is the series editor of Transaction's Comparative Urban and Community Research book series.
Review Quotes:
"Rich and varied . . . Remaking Urban Citizenship offers an exciting framework and new foundation for considering . . . questions about contemporary urban citizenship, migration and social movements."
--Cuz Potter, Urban Studies Journal
"Smith and McQuarrie's new edited collection belongs in the bookshelf of every urbanist concerned with the possibilities, limits (and contradictions) of city-based claims and movements for greater inclusion and democracy in the current moment. It is one of the best recent examples of a kind of engaged scholarship that has a politics without romanticism. The original essays all show sympathy for challengers to the current order while remaining true to the kind of critical analysis these movements most need. Based on carefully-detailed in settings from China to Europe to the United States, and bookended by rich theoretical reflections, the book powerfully makes the case that if cities are changing, so are their grassroots and the meaning of ever-elusive urban rights."
--Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Brown University